Some fish have moved back into the deeper waters of the lake after a few days of not being there. Warm temps to 30 during the day and down to 5 at night the past 4 to 5 days with lots of sunshine. Water temps down to 62-63 in the mornings and back up to 66-67 during the peak of the day and evenings drops quickly down to 63-64. Small chironomids are on the menu in the deeper waters. They have been picky at times and other times it didn’t seem to matter if you had the right size and fished the right depth, very few fish feeding on the bottom even though they are there, most likely we just can figure out what their feeding on. Trollers trolling Hot Shots and Kwikfish are picking up fish, worm under a float fished deep has produced fish. Cooler water temps have dropped some species of weeds, as the water cools down next week with cooler temp more weeds will sink and this opens up the fishing in shallow water with leeches. There has been some late evening surface feeding by the fish, emerging chironomid patterns have worked or stripping Olive green Carey patterns produced fish.
Unstable weather patterns the past week slowed down chironomid hatches over the deeper water along with shallower areas, some fish moved to shallower water and were a bit cooperative on various patterns during some parts of the day, tight lipped … Continue reading
Fishing has been fair the past few weeks. Weather is finally slowly warming up, surface temps hovering around 60F which is just enough to start some damsel hatches which is almost a month behind schedule in this unusual cooler start … Continue reading
The cold May and 1st few days of June are behind us, water temps got up to 56 10 days ago and did drop to 49 less than a week ago and now sits at 54. Warmer temperatures will raise … Continue reading
Fishing continues to be good the past week and continues with the unstable weather over the Victoria Long Weekend. We woke up to snow in the hills and a strong Northwesterly wind with the odd shower. Lows will be dropping … Continue reading
Spring has seen a gradual warming of the water, surface temps hit 50 yesterday afternoon. Mid to low 40’s the past few weeks. Good chironomid hatches have been seen. mainly 16’s, some 14’s and yesterday 12’s were coming off. Fish … Continue reading
Beautiful sunny and warm temps up to 17 Deg. with calm to light breeze this weekend, water temps 43 Deg. in the mornings up to 45 during the day. Over a week of strong winds and cool temperatures right at … Continue reading
Tunkwa Lake iced off Tuesday late afternoon, high winds pushed the ice to the North shore line. Cool temps and moderate winds out of the North will have conditions chilly out there.
Tunkwa is showing open water in our campground bay, be a week before it ices off unless tomorrows forecast of windy (42km gusts) weather and warm temps blow it to the North shoreline. It was above freezing last night and … Continue reading
We have had close to a week of mid teens temperatures by the afternoons with just below 0 temps at night, the last few days the highs have been around 8, overnight just around 0. The upcoming week highs are … Continue reading
Old Man Winter has loosened it’s grip yesterday with above freezing temperatures during the day and just above freezing overnight. Daytime temperatures forecast in the low teens starting next Friday but over night it drops to below freezing. Were staring … Continue reading
Fishing has slowed down a bit, fish to 19 inches were caught during the week on dew worms, shrimp and krill. A few reports of larger fish getting broken off by line snaps trying to get them out of the … Continue reading